Movies 1900 Page 13

A prince gets the help of a fairy to aid in his conflict with a wizard.

Vesuvius erupts and people escape from a room as the ceiling falls.

The stubborn resistance of the Boers is shown by the activity and persistency with which they fire the two large field pieces immediately in the...

"This funny individual will make you laugh until your sides ache. He is funny in all his actions, yet when he puts on his shoes you can imagine the...

This picture opens with the young cadets climbing the rigging and going through the sail drill on board the famous historic ship "Constellation."...

Two men lose it laughing at something in a magazine

This scene opens by showing a pretty cook mixing bread in the kitchen. Jones comes in unexpectedly from a trip and carries a dress suitcase. He...

First of a series of films showing visitors to the Paris Exposition 1900 standing on a mobile wooden platform.

Photographed February-March, 1898 in Canton, China

Possibly the sensation of the flight of a bird can be nearest realized by being on deck of one of the U.S. Government's fleet torpedo boats racing at...

Well did you ever? Two women share juicy stories, and enjoyably shocked reaction, over tea.

Single shot of a column of Gordon Highlanders marching out of their camp at Ladysmith to meet General Buller's relief column.

A moving tour through lively turn-of-the-century Southampton.

Variant titles from Biograph production logs indicate that the 15th Infantry was on the way to China. Other sources indicate that the regiment was...

"A series of admirable living pictures, posed by competent artists, and faithfully representing well-known art masterpieces, notably the works of...

The plot outlines the story of the early Christian martyrs with a compendium of horrors such as maulings at the Colosseum, crucifixions, beheadings,...

A client has trouble listening to the photographer's instructions.

At the first news of the disast by cyclone and tidal wave that devastated Galveston on Saturday, September 8th, 1900, we equipped a party of...

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Victorian filmmakers loved few sights more than crashing waves. Who those filmmakers were in this particular case is not documented, but they have...

British fictional propaganda film on a Boer defeat in the Second Boer War, 27th February 1900

Panorama of the quai de la Seine and the foreign pavilions of the Exhibition: Sweden, Monaco, Romania, Spain.

A short film

A scene takes place in front of a cafe; only one performer.

An explosive bit of early war film. These two exciting snippets were potentially part of a much larger action extravaganza. Originating from Alfred...

Two chaps, a Gramophone, and a dog called Nipper. What could possibly go wrong?

Movement of visitors in front of the Exhibition water tower.

Jeanne Chasles dances for the presentation of the Phono-Cinema-Theatre.

Ground level view of a column of Australian cavalry riding down Adderley Street in Cape Town watched by enthusiastic crowds.

A German warship.

A white actor in blackface steals a chicken and hides in a coal bin. A policeman looks in the coal bin, sits on the lid and calls for help. The man...

Throngs of men in top hats walk past the camera.

Shot in 1900, the film is of Elizabeth Yates, a trailblazing woman elected Mayor of Onehunga in 1893 – just a few weeks after New Zealand women...

Workers of all ages depart Oldroyd's wool mill – and the filmmakers' camera is a subject of curiosity.

Showing the Whilrpool Rapids as they are seen from the front of a car on the Great Gorge Road.

Actuality film of the British Commander-in-Chief Lord Roberts presiding over the raising of the Union Jack in Pretoria during the Second Boer War....

A view of Dam Square and the Damrak. To the right the 'Beurs van Zocher', the commodity exchange building of architect J.D. Zocher.

Back in Blighty - after fighting in the Boer War, these volunteer soldiers are heading home to London and Middlesex